Sources at the department of telecommunications confirmed that Bharti Airtel has submitted application to bid for airwaves frequencies at pan-India level.
Sources at Bharti Airtel, Idea and Vodafone also confirmed that companies have filed applications but did not disclose details of the application like number of telecom circles in which they will bid for airwaves frequencies and the spectrum band in which they will bid.
DoT is conducting auction of airwaves frequencies in 1800 Mhz, being used for GSM services at present, and 800 Mhz band, being used for CDMA services, after Supreme Court cancelled 122 telecom licences belonging to eight different companies in 2G scam.
DoT sources confirmed that Videocon and Telenor, whose Indian joint venture Uninor lost licence has also submitted application but no immediate comments could be obtained from the company.
The cancelled licences included 22 permits of Uninor (joint venture between Unitech Wireless and Norwegian firm Telenor), Loop 21, Sistema-Shyam (SSTL) 21, Etisalat-DB 15, S Tel 6, Videocon 21, Idea 9
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